The Dead of Summer Quotes

“Anchor's Mercy is a world where no one has to hide who they are. Monsters are drawn to that sort of unabashed light.”
― Ryan La Sala, The Dead of Summer

“I take it back,” Bash says through a mouthful. “Don’t kill me. I thought I was dying, but I just needed a little snack.”
― Ryan La Sala, The Dead of Summer

“What must a person be made of? Maybe this is the wrong question. Maybe we are not made of what, but who. Our friends, our families, our communities, our mentors. The people who love us, the people who hate us, even the people who hunt us.”
― Ryan La Sala, The Dead of Summer

“I have never seen love like what you have with your friends. Love like that can outlast anything. The world isn’t ending, but even if it was, the Suds should survive. Do you get what I’m saying?”
― Ryan La Sala, The Dead of Summer

“I chipped my heart apart so it wouldn’t sink me into sorrow, but I wish someone had told me to save the pieces. All I have now is this aching emptiness, and all the beauty around me is a constant reminder of what I can’t feel. All this joy, all this dreaminess— I hate it.”
― Ryan La Sala, The Dead of Summer

“It can’t last. It never does. A dream come true is still just a dream, and all dreams end.”
― Ryan La Sala, The Dead of Summer

“On Anchor’s Mercy, you’re not supposed to notice how often people get sick, how quickly they die, or how ready the island is to move on without them. What you don’t look at can’t see you.”
― Ryan La Sala, The Dead of Summer

“What happened, what is still happening in those waters makes even the most deranged conspiracy theories look like Mother Goose.”
― Ryan La Sala, The Dead of Summer

“This isn’t a lie, but it isn’t the truth. Hope is often a thing in between, I’m discovering.”
― Ryan La Sala, The Dead of Summer

“We do not end, we echo.”
― Ryan La Sala, The Dead of Summer

“Fine. Yes. We crashed. But only technically. Spiritually, it was more like parallel parking but perpendicular.”
― Ryan La Sala, The Dead of Summer

“You're really calling a sick, traumatized gay kid theatrical? Aboard a giant warship painted up like 'Anything Goes?' Baby, it's all theater to me. You're the scientist, allegedly.”
― Ryan La Sala, The Dead of Summer

“Keep your eyes on the horizon, and pay very close attention to what happens next.”
― Ryan La Sala, The Dead of Summer